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Mushrooms

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Mushrooms

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the mushrooms and scrape out the insides.

  2. Place them in a saucepan and sprinkle a little salt over them.

  3. Boil the mushrooms in their own liquid.

  4. Drain the mushrooms in a sieve.

  5. Lay them on tin plates and place in a cool oven.

  6. Repeat until the mushrooms are perfectly dry.

  7. Store in a clean stone jar, tie it tightly, and keep in a dry place.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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